Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way. Sounds fun! You can watch the trailer here. Prevenge (15) 2016 UK 1hr 27m Friday 25th October Hallhill. Doors and Bar 7.00 Film starts at 7.30…Continue readingPrevenge
Category: Indie/Arthouse
Debra Granik’s new film, “Leave No Trace,” adapted from the 2009 novel, My Abandonment by Peter Rock, combines elements of “Winter’s Bone” and “Stray Dog,” the young girl off the grid, the troubled veteran living with PTSD. “Leave No Trace” is, at times, heartbreaking, but it’s also filled with glimpses of almost casual human kindness,…Continue readingLeave No Trace
Inspired by the true story of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The Young Offenders is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor and Jock, two inner-city teenagers from Cork who dress the same, act the same, and even have the same bum-fluff mustaches. Jock is a legendary bike thief who plays a daily…Continue readingThe Young Offenders
This sounds like a fab film, I hope everyone can make it this month! “The firecracker story of a six-year-old girl, her friends and single mother in a scuffed motel outside Walt Disney World in Orlando.” – Danny Leigh, The Guardian. June 29th, 7.30 at the Hallhill Sports centre in Dunbar, show starts promptly at…Continue readingThe Florida Project
This painful, complex, beautifully acted and inexpressibly sad drama from Ira Sachs is about something that looms large in real life, but never usually gets acknowledged in the movies in any but the vaguest way – banal, undignified embarrassment over money, and the deadly serious damage this causes. This film is very different from the general run…Continue readingLittle Men
A poetic and intimate story of loss, rebirth and transformation which documents one man’s journey into a world beyond sight. You will find a great review of the film here. You can watch the trailer here. Notes on Blindness (U)2016, UK 90 mins Friday 29th September Hallhill Doors and Bar 7.30 Film starts at 8.00Continue readingNotes on Blindness
Our first film of 2017 is the Icelandic film ‘Rams’. In a remote valley two estranged brothers are forced to come together – after 40 years of feuding – to save their cherished rams. “A darkly comedic drama, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking” The Guardian “Switching from dour humour to humanist drama without seeming contrived,…Continue readingRams
A young Scottish man’s odyssey across 19th century in search of the woman he loves is guided by a mysterious outlaw towards a terrible reckoning. You can watch the trailer here. SLOW WEST (15) 2015, New Zealand, 1hr 24 mins. Friday 25th November at Hallhill Doors and Bar 7.30pm Film starts at 8.00pmContinue readingSlow West
In the week leading up to their 45th wedding anniversary a couple receive an unexpected letter which contains potentially life changing news. You can watch the trailer here 45 Years (15) 2015, UK, 1hr 35mins. Friday 27th May, Hallhill. Doors and bar 7.30 Film starts at 8.00Continue reading45 YEARS
Our first film of 2016 is one of the best comedies of 2015. What We Do In The Shadows is a hilarious mockumentary from New Zealand which follows the lives of three vampires living in a shared house and coping with the mundanity of modern life. “Confronted with endless cycles of loss and regret, the…Continue readingWhat We Do In The Shadows